UC Merced Connect: Professors’ expertise tapped for policy discussions at drought summit

The Modesto Bee (April 22, 2014) — Two UC Merced researchers are slated to take part in the UC Drought Science, Policy and Management Summit at the state Capitol on Friday. School of Engineering professor Roger Bales and Joshua Viers, director of the campus’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, will take part in panel discussions during the daylong summit organized by UC Davis at the request of UC President Janet Napolitano. (Source: UC Merced news release.)